On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:45:04 +0100 Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > |> Perhaps what it should do on that is check for uImage.bin on / and > |> /media/card, and if found copy the payload image over there > |> additionally as uImage.bin. > |> > | Im having trouble parsing what you mean. > | > | /boot/uImage.bin will always be a kernel image no matter the boot > | media, what happens extra is this is also flashed. > > There's another case where you updated the kernel during jffs2 rootfs > booted session, but you also boot on SD Card other times. Then, it > would be good if it made sure that the kernel update action also > updated what would be /media/card/boot -- previously I stuck my > kernels in / but /boot is fine now I see it is the convention -- if > there was a uImage.bin already in there. > Hmm, there is a very good tradition in packaging systems to not fsck with data outside of / for very good reasons. Im not sure I like the automatically overwriting stuff on mounted media without knowing what it is. > Did you see any problem with the flash_erase --> first 4MBytes of > kernel partition thing? > No problems I can see, but gta01 is so old I cant remeber what its partitioning is like. Graeme
